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Mesoscale Discussion 337
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 13, 2014, 2:32 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; Buchanan County, Clinton County, Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2014, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Atchison County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Osage County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 48 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 923 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 13.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 9:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Chase, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary and 11 more | 63 min |
| Apr 12, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan | 64 min |
| Apr 13, 7:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Doniphan | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 11:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 27 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 12:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jewell, Norton, Phillips, Smith | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 4:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee | 32 min |
| Apr 13, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 41 more | 59 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2014Every mesoscale discussion in 2014
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.